A lógica do dinheiro e a cidade moderna em Os ratos

Márcia Helena Saldanha Barbosa; Mauro Gaglietti

doi:10.5433/1678-2054.2008v12p16

The logic of money and the modern cities in Os ratos

Authors

Márcia Helena Saldanha Barbosa Universidade de Passo Fundo https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0157-8045
Mauro Gaglietti Faculdade Meridional / Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5433/1678-2054.2008v12p16

Keywords:

Dyonélio Machado fiction work, Blasé attitude, Modern cities

Abstract

The novel Os ratos, by Dyonélio Machado, is analyzed according to Georg Simmel’s criticism of modern culture, in the context of a developed socialized monetary economy, as a gathering of daily actions. As much as cities are the monetary circulating center, they are also the proper scenario for a blasé attitude, the indifference towards everything and everyone, which causes the devaluation of everything and everyone, and at the end causes the depreciation of one’s own individuality. Therefore, living in the big cities implies in using surviving strategies.

Author Biographies

Márcia Helena Saldanha Barbosa, Universidade de Passo Fundo

Professor at the Universidade de Passo Fundo.

Mauro Gaglietti, Faculdade Meridional / Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões.

Professor at Faculdade Meridional and the Universidade Regional Integrada do Alto Uruguai e das Missões.

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2016-03-23

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BARBOSA, Márcia Helena Saldanha; GAGLIETTI, Mauro. The logic of money and the modern cities in Os ratos. Terra Roxa e Outras Terras: Revista de Estudos Literários, [S. l.], v. 12, p. 16–23, 2016. DOI: 10.5433/1678-2054.2008v12p16. Disponível em: https://ojs.uel.br/revistas/uel/index.php/terraroxa/article/view/24850. Acesso em: 3 jul. 2024.

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